Health News | Scientists Find Cancer Triggers That Could Stimulate Targeted Drug Therapy | NewestLY
Washington [US]July 10 (ANI): Researchers have definitively linked the function of a protein-specific domain important in plant microbial biology to cancer triggers in humans, knowledge that has eluded scientists for decades. The team’s findings, published in Nature Communications Biology, open new avenues for the development of selective drug therapies to fight different types of cancers such as cancers that start in the breast and stomach. Read Also | Women With Anorexia Likely To Have Underweight Babies, Study Says. ORNL scientists set out to experimentally prove what they first concluded with computational studies: that the plasminogen-apple-nematode domain, or PAN, is associated with cell proliferation that promotes tumor growth in humans and defense signaling during plant-microbial interactions in bioenergetic plants. This association was first made when researchers were exploring the genomes of plants such as poplars and willows. In the latest study, the ORNL team demonstrated